Perhaps the most alarming
development in the Republic of Azerbaijan and Turkey are attempts
by Grey Wolves and pan-Turanian ideologues to spread racialist hate
literature. There are strong indications that modern-day pan-Turanian
ideologies (the Grey wolves in Turkey and the Republic of Azerbaijan
in particular) are “discovering” Adolph Hitler’s manual of racial
hate entitled “Mein Kampf” (My Struggle). Note the original
“Mein Kampf” in German by Hitler at left and the recent Turkish
translation (KavGam) at right.

MeinKampfkavgam

Sales of the book
are reputed to be high according to Associated News writer James
C. Helicke (see web References). To be fair, the reasons for its
interest among Turks go beyond simple pan-Turanian expansionism.
According to Helicke, many Turks are feeling the frustration
with growing pan-Kurdish separatism and are critical of Israel,
the United States and the European Union. To the
observer this would appear strange, since on the surface at least,
Turkey is an ally to both Israel and the west. Helicke quotes Umit
Ozdag (writer of the Turkish daily, Aksam):

“Turks feel
ill-treated by the West…Turks think they are being exploited.
They are angry with the demands of the European Union and United
States. But those who anger them the most are
Kurdish nationalists…Turks who think they are being stabbed
in the back read Hitler. That is a ... very dangerous development."

It is precisely in this
climate of distrust and conspiracy mills that racist hate literature
may be able to prosper, as it did in 1920s Germany. Like Nazism,
Pan-Turanianism depends onthe constant repetitionof
its false ideologyto spread and solidify its messages.

The Turkish Republic
is a parliamentary democracy, and as such, freedom of speech thrives
in Turkey. However, creeds of hate, if allowed to expand, have the
potential to spread like a malignant cancer. This is a problem every
democracy (including Turkey) faces. The question to be asked is:
how motivated are the grey Wolves and their ideological kin to create
animosity between Turks and their Armenian, Greek and Iranian neighbors?
What could possibly be the benefit of promoting or even contemplating
hate literature?

It was on March 26,
1998, when the President of Azerbaijan, Heidar Aliev (1923-2003),
issued his “Decree on the Genocide of the Azerbaijanis”. This “decree”
is essentially a call for hatred against Armenians, Iranians and
non-Turkish speaking Azerbaijanis. What is disturbing is how little
attention this has received in western media outlets. This is mainly
due to the very anti-Iranian attitudes prevalent in the western
world (Part VI, items 7-8), as well as the drive to access the
rich petroleum deposits of the Caucasus and Central Asia (Part VI,
items 1-3).

(2) Anti-Armenian Literature.

Perhaps
the most shocking element in aforementioned March 26, 1988 decree is the statement that:

"Armenia
is a fictitious state created on Azerbaijani land ..."

This
was published in most governmental newspapers in the Government
of Azerbaijan at the time. The decree is said to be accessible in
English as well. The text was reputedly written by the fanatically
anti-Armenian and anti-Iranian, Vafa Guluzade (Photo below),
an ex-KGB agent who is now a “born-again pan-Turanianist”:

vafa

It
is worth noting that Mr. Guluzade, and other individuals who share
his outlook, are now actively courted by western officials.

(a)
Similarity to Nazi Propaganda.

There
are striking similarities between present-day Grey Wolf anti-Armenian
literature and the anti-Jewish Nazi literature of the 1930s. This
is the cliché “stab in the back” theme in which the evil
swarthy Armenian is the culprit (below left). Note the similarity
of this poster to the Nazi-depicted “cowardly Jew” who “stabs the
valiant German warrior in the back” (below right). It is no secret
that hate groups create despicably false images of the “other” to
disseminate their poisonous agenda.

Armen-Cartoon]Jew-Cartoon]

(b)
Mr. Talaat Pasha & The 1915 Armenian Tragedy.

Then there is the Ottoman
Grand Vizier, Mehmed Talaat Pasha (1874-1921),
himself reputedly of Bulgarian and Jewish descent (see photo below).
Mehmed Talaat Pasha was responsible for the elimination of over
one million Armenians.

Talaat

As Minister of the Interior Talaat was
entrusted with the responsibility of ensuring Ottoman Turkey's domestic
capabilities to wage war and support the military.

It was Talaat’s office that ordered
the Armenians to be systematically deported from the eastern provinces
of the Ottoman Empire. The Armenians were generally deported
to Syria and Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq) in the April of 1915.
Most never survived the “long march”. Some of the survivors (along
with numbers of Pontic Greeks who had also suffered killings) crossed
the Iranian border where some 50,000 (or more) were given shelter
by Iran’s Azerbaijani population and the government in Tehran. The
rest escaped to Russia, Syria/Lebanon, Cyprus, Europe, Canada and
the United States.

This is history’s first case of mass
genocide. Although estimates vary, most agree that over
one million Armenians perished as a result of the policies of Talaat
Pasha’s office. Many Pontic Greeks perished as well. Talaat's subsequent
denials of knowledge or involvement were generally disregarded by
the majority of contemporary observers at that time and at present.

But history is not so
easily dismissed: there is simply too much archival corroboration
regarding this tragedy. Note some highlights from a telegram dated
July 16, 1915, sent by US Ambassador
to Ottoman Turkey, Henry Morgenthau to the Secretary of State in Washington:

“…Deportation
of and excesses against peaceful Armenians is increasing
and from harrowing reports of eye witnesses it appears that
a campaign of race extermination is in progress under a pretext
of reprisal against rebellion…Protests as well as threats are unavailing
and probably incite the Ottoman government to more drastic measures
as they are determined to disclaim responsibility for their absolute
disregard of capitulations …Suggest you inform belligerent nations
and mission boards of this.”
[United States of America, National Archives and Records Administration
Record Group 59, Records of the Department of State Decimal File
867, Internal Affairs of Turkey
Decimal File 860J, Internal Affairs of Armenia; See also Rawlinson
in references; see Armenian Genocide in Web References]

The photo below is a sample of
the tragedies of the time. For further archival information on the
tragedy, see Nazer and Kloian in References.

Genocide

But there is another
non-Turkish angle to the Armenian genocide – the role of some
Ottoman Kurds. Many of these were levies in the Ottoman Empire.
These had a role in the massacres of both Armenian and Assyrian
Christian communities in Eastern Anatolia and modern Northern Iraq.
The photo below of Ottoman Kurdish levies in 1917 Anatolia is of
interest as it shows officers dressed in Ottoman uniforms, with
regular soldiers in their traditional Kurdish attire (Nicolle in
References)

Ottoman
Kurd

Nevertheless, the Armenian tragedy remains
a contentious one among today’s Turks. The term “Genocide”
is simply not acknowledged. Modern Turkish historians seem to be
divided into two camps. The first camp seems to deny the veracity
of the entire episode, and the other explains the events as atrocities
committed by both sides. They point to previous Armenian cooperation
with the Russians and allege an Armenian role in brutalizing Turkish
and Kurdish civilians.

Many modern Turks also
complain of the “Yellow Journalism” of the time in addition to a
continuing general anti-Turkish bias amongst Europeans. This certainly
cannot be discounted, given the very negative reactions by much
of European popular opinion against the long-standing Turkish application
to enter the EU.

These observations however
fail to explain why so many untold numbers of apolitical innocent
civilians were liquidated by the offices of Mr. Talaat Pasha.
Armenians cite pan-Turanian racialism as the real culprit of the
tragedy.

(c) Forgotten Gallant
Turks who Saved Lives.

One important fact has
been forgotten by historians of all sides (including Turks): Many
Turks risked their lives to save Armenian civilians and by doing
so put their own lives in danger. Anti-Turkish sentiments typically
portray all Turks as evil and barbaric. This is unfair and unjust,
and shows a brazen disregard for historical balance. True, the savage
murders were committed by Ottoman authorities, but the main impulse
for these came from religious zealots and members of the earlier
Young Turk movement. This author was told by a survivor of the tragedy
(she has asked for her identity to be hidden) in no uncertain terms
that:

“…there were many
good self-sacrificing and courageous Turks…god bless them…many
risked themselves, their families and their lives to save us
from the hell hounds of Talaat Pasha…many perished…they were even
treated worse than the Armenians if they were caught…”

(d) Political Influence
and Re-Writing History.

A number of western
outlets are seeking to downplay and/or deny the veracity of the
Armenian genocide, and there are serious attempts to influence
academic scholarship with regards to this issue. Note the statement
by the late Mr. Sam Weems:

“This entire Armenian genocide claim is as bogus
as a three-dollar bill and (they) know it!”

[See Tall Armenian Tale
in Web references]

Mr.
Weems' book “Armenia:
Secrets of a "Christian"TerroristState” (photo below - see References) purports a link between the Armenian
Church and terrorism since the 1890s and rejects the historical
veracity of the Armenian genocide. One can only imagine the uproar
(and rightly so) if any one foolishly denied the Jewish holocaust
at the hands of the Nazis. The Armenian holocaust is being sidelined
in the interests of geopolitics and Petroleum diplomacy (see
Part VI, items 1-3).

WeemsBook

It
is worth noting that in Canada,
publications that deny genocides (e.g. the Hebrew Holocause,
the Armenian genocide, Stalin’s mass murder of Ukrainians) are legally
regarded as Hate literature.

There
are strong allegations that certain members of the US government have been colluding with individuals who have pan-Turanianism
sympathies. A scandal erupted when (former)
FBI translator Sibel Edmonds accused the FBI of covering
up clandestine communications and financial dealings (or payoffs?)
between certain Turkish nationals and the office of House Speaker
Dennis Hastert (see Website References). According to Reporter
David Rose:

“One of the Turkish targets of these wiretaps claimed that
the price for getting Dennis Hastert to withdraw the (Armenian
Genocide) resolution would be $500,000. Now, I do emphasize
there's no evidence at all that he received such a payment,
but that is what is said to have been recorded in one of the
wiretaps”.

No actual proof has
been produced of Hastert ever receiving a payoff: there simply is
no “smoking gun”. However, Hastert has noted that he withdrew support
for the resolution due to a letter written to him by President Clinton
who had noted that such a resolution would not be in the interests
of US-Turkish relations. There have nevertheless been numerous
other instances of such allegations. The issue is the use of
funding and political influence to alter historical information.
There is plenty of evidence that this is in fact happening (see
Part VI, item 4a).

Nevertheless, political
pressures and alleged funding appear to be having their effect.
Simply put, there appears to be an alternative history to the Armenian
massacres, one that proposes that

[a] the Armenians “started it”

[b] the Ottomans are not responsible for what took
place

Professor Justin McCarthy of Louisville
University states that:

“On 26
May 1915, the government gave orders to relocate the
Armenians…the only actual documents on the deportation show a soliticiousness
for the welfare of the deportees-instructions on properly selling
property, defending columns of Armenians…caring for health and sanitation…”

[Justin McCarthy, The Ottoman Peoples and the End
of Empire, London: Arnold & Oxford University Press, 2001, p.110-111]

Perhaps the Professor
has chosen to ignore the virtual libraries of memos and archives
already in place. But why is the Professor selectively ignoring
information regarding Talaat Pasha and his office? History is
being literally re-written as a result of successful political lobbying
– facts which were beyond dispute are now open for alteration by
the highest bidder.

There certainly are
powerful lobbies supporting attempts to sway popular attention
away from the Armenian tragedy. In 1989, a
US Senate resolution marking the seventy-fifth anniversary of
the Armenian genocide was blocked as a result a result of successful
Turkish lobbying.

(e)
The Role of Mr. Chehreganli & SANAM.

And then there is Mr.
Chehreganli and his support for the anti-Armenian Grey Wolf agenda.
The man is very anti-Armenian in his views. Mr. Chehreganli
is now advancing the fraudulent notion that Armenians have always
been the enemies of the Azerbaijanis. It is also very interesting that Chehreganli makes no mention of how
supportive the Armenian Social Democrats were of Sattar Khan’s
movement. The Armenians stood by him in Tabriz, both during the siege and even after the Russians arrived. The valiant
heroism of the Armenians in Tabriz during the brutal Imperial Russian occupation (Part II, item 5c) is
all but forgotten: the Armenians risked their lives and families
to protect Azeri civilians from Russian atrocities (see Chaqeri,
p.165 in references). See photo below of Iranian Armenian supporters
of the Persian Constitutional movement (see Chaqeri in references).

Yephrem

As noted in Part II,
item 5b, Sattar Khan was tragically and fatally wounded in Tehran’s
Atabak Park during an apparently bungled disarming operation. As
noted by Chaqeri (p. 165) the Armenian role (Yephrem Khan) in
the AtabakPark tragedy has been grossly
exaggerated by the “StalinistSchool
of Historiography on Iran”. Both Armenians (esp.
Republic of Armenia) and Azerbaijanis (esp. Republic of Azerbaijan)
appear to have a biased view of those events. Pan-Turanian activists
have again used a selective view of those events to further instigate
Armenian-Azerbaijani friction.

Armenians and Azerbaijanis
have fought side by side numerous times in history, the Constitutional
Movement of Persia being only one example. There
is a long history of friendship, trade, cooperation and intermarriage
between the two peoples. This was especially evident during the
long Safavid-Ottoman wars. Relations between the Armenians and the
Arranis (now Republic of Azerbaijan) soured after the Russians sponsored
some of the latter against the former to commit atrocities, after
the failed 1905 Russian revolution.

Mr. Chehreganli’s SANAM
website now has two anti-Armenian links entitled “Azeri Genocide”
and “Armenian Terror”. He produces pictures of dead Azeris
at Armenian hands in the Nagorno-Karabakh tragedy (see below left)
as well as a new link (with a single photo) of the (alleged) victim
of “Persian chauvinism” (see right):

AzeriChildshehid

What Chehreganli does
not mention are the Grey Wolf fighters in the Caucasus
who have engaged in the brutal ethnic cleansing of Armenian civilians.
See Hrair H. Khatcherian’sphoto below of ruins of Horek(Talish) which
was destroyedanditsArmenian residentsmassacred.

Horek

Mr. Chehreganli also fails to mention that the late President
Elchibey's Grey Wolf paramilitary gangs were responsible for the
massacre in the Nagorno Karabakh town of Khojally
(Xocalli). The
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has seen extremities committed by both
sides, truly an unnecessary tragedy that must be resolved by
fraternal dialogue.

Chehreganli has also
ordered his supporters to promote anti-Armenian views within Iran
as well. SANAM-Grey Wolf supporters regularly appeal to the
tragic Karabakh issue in an anti-Armenian racialist fashion
during the Babak rallies (see below photo):

Anti
Armen

The Grey Wolf salute
in the above photo would chillingly remind any Armenian of the wider
pan-Turanian Grey Wolf agenda at work here. Note the photograph
of Chehreganli being held aloft behind the yellow Karabakh banner.

Chehreganli is again
re-defining issues in very simplistic and racialistic terms. He
denies that the Armenian-Azeri disputes are mainly territorial
and political in origin. Not so, according to Chehreganli
– he narrates the disputes as a race war between “Azeri-Turks” and
“treacherous Armenians”. This is all music to the ears of Grey
Wolf racist ideologues.

The photo of the alleged
victim of “Persian chauvinism” is interesting as well. Has the photo
been deliberately planted for provocation? The point to be made
is that of context. Perhaps the dead man was a victim of political
violence, perhaps not. The question (like the Armenian issue) is
this: how (and why) does the photo provide “conclusive proof” of
a Persian-Azeri race war?

Chehreganli has been
working tirelessly to create a Persian-Azeri conflict, and given
his history of deception, false historiography and racialism, this
photo appears to be simply another tool in that quest. He is now
an equal opportunity hate-monger: he despises his nation of origin
(Iran), as much as he does Armenia.

The Armenians state clearly that they
have been the victims of pan-Turanian ideology and have repeatedly
warned the international community of the dangers of pan-Turanian
ideology to Greece, the Balkans, the Orthodox Slavic world, Iranian
peoples (Persians, Azeris, Kurds, etc.), the Caucasus as well as
the Near East. It would seem that these warnings are being simply
ignored, in the name of good old fashioned economics and geo politics.

(3) Anti-Iranian Literature.

Anti-Iranian literature
can be traced as far back as 1918, when Mr. Amin Rasulzadeh in support
of his friends in the Musavats, re-wrote history in 1918 by re-naming
Arran as “Azerbaijan”. Mr. Stalin’s and the former Soviet Union’s
services to pan-Turanianism by way of document falsifications and
invented historiography (e.g. Vatan Dili), have been duly noted
(Part II, item 1c).

A number of people in
the Republic of Azerbaijan (and some of their supporters in Iranian
Azerbaijan) truly believe that Mr. Pishevari was a hero, and seem
oblivious of his support by Mr. Stalin and Communist Russia, and
the role of oil in that crisis. The late Dr. Elchibey’s hate literature
and speeches against Iran are cherished as absolute truths. Mr.
Chehreganli is portrayed as the representative of “the national
re-awakening of South Azerbaijan”. Persia’s national heroes such
as Babak Khorramdin (Part II, item 6) and Sattar Khan (Part II,
item 5) have long since been re-narrated into the pan-Turanian cause.

Recall the late Abulfazl
Elchibey’s speech (already cited in Part II, item 4) in which he
openly called for Iran’s destruction. Many of the Republic of Azerbaijan’s
opposition parties in Baku openly call for "an
expanded Azerbaijan, exclusively and
only for ethnic Azeris".

There are efforts at
teaching Elchibey-ism and much of Grey Wolf ideology in general,
to students in the elementary, secondary and post-secondary curricula
in the Republic of Azerbaijan. Books are also being published, with
the explicit aim of encouraging Iranian Azerbaijanis to question
their historical links to Persia. The wife of
the late President Heidar Aliev is reputed to have published
a book in which much of the history of Azerbaijan has been de-Persianized. This writer has also been informed
by Fatema Soudavar Farmanfarmain of a book by a certain Chingiz
Qajar, which was published in Turkey
(no date, publisher's citation, ISBN or copyright). The glossy cover
and pages are reported as providing illustrations of monuments in
Iran and Central Asia.
The book predictably cites historical figures such as Queen Tomyris,
and Babak Khorramdin, prophet Zoroaster, Soharavardi, Rashid-al-din,
Shaikh Safi, Mir Ali Tabrizi (the calligrapher), Nezami,
Khaqani, Baba Kuhi of Shiraz (because he came from Shirvan),
Nasir-al-din Tusi, as well some of the Safavids as
well as the Qajars as “Turkish”. At least the author acknowledges
that the Ottoman invasions of Azerbaijan obliged many of the local talents to flee to Ghazvin and Isfahan.

Within Iran, Mr. Chehreganli
and SANAM are hard at work. Thanks to generous foreign support (Part
VI, items 1,4,6-8), anti-Iran pamphlets are being deliberately and
systematically placed in many parts of Iran’s northwest. Note photo
below of a roadside pole:

Flyer

The top picture on the
pole depicts the symbolic pan-Turanian Grey Wolf – on the
bottom is what appears to be a portrait of Jafar Pishevari.
As noted repeatedly in this commentary, the Grey Wolf legend lacks
any historical basis, and as a mythology is thoroughly alien to
the region. Mr. Pishevari’s real credentials have been duly discussed
in Part II, item 1e.

The Grey Wolves are
engaged in their usual pastime of re-writing history: they wish
to convey the false narrative that Pishevari represents the “historical
aspirations of the Azerbaijani people”. This is analogous to stating
that Vidkun Quisling (1887-1945), a Norwegian politician who betrayed
his nation for the Nazis, was a man who truly represented the people
of Norway. History is not so easily re-written.

Pan-Turanian
activists and their western supporters are loathe to admit that
the Azerbaijanis resented Pishevari’s separatist tendencies. They
continue to insist that Azerbaijan
is “under Persian occupation” and make no mention of the foreign
sponsorship of Pishevari, as well as today’s “neo-Pishevari”
movements (Part VI, items 1-4, 6-8, 10). More interestingly,
they fail to take into account the true feelings of the vast
majority of the Azerbaijanis of the Pishevari period and especially
today (Part V).

Referral to the aforementioned
contents of this article as well as Mr. Chehreganli’s SANAM website
provides sufficient information on the anti-Iran dimensions of this
Grey Wolf pan-Turanian movement.

(4) The Status of non-Turkic speaking Azerbaijanis.

The Republic of Azerbaijan
has a large number of Iranian speaking citizens, notably the Talysh
and the Tats, who are said to be underrepresented and often downplayed
in census statistics. Pan-Turanian ideologues may see them as a
nuisance because they:

[a] contradict
the thesis that all Azerbaijanis (in Iran and Arran)
speak Turkish

[b] are a reminder of
the region’s Iranian linguistic, anthropological and cultural
legacies.

Ironically, pan-Turanian
attempts at inciting separatism within Iran have backfired in the
Republic of Azerbaijan. This is due to the extremely anti-Persian
Grey Wolf ideology which has begun to alienate Azerbaijan’s non-Turkish
speaking minorities. There is now a Talysh Independence Movement,
a dynamic which makes the young Republic of Azerbaijan highly vulnerable
(see article by Turkish writer Asim Oku in Web References).

The non-Iranian Lezgians
(who speak three related non-Iranic Caucasian dialects) have also
expressed their distinctiveness, especially in the mid 1990s. Interestingly,
Western (mainly English speaking) media outlets, Human Rights organizations
and academic platforms have been silent with respect to these developments.

Azerbaijan was also
reputed to have had a large Armenian community, especially in Baku.
This is of course no longer the case, thanks to the bitterness and
animosity that has been brewing as a result of the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflicts.

It is still unclear
how these minorities will fit into pan-Turanian ideology, especially
with respect to attempts at creating a “united Azerbaijan” (Republic
of Azerbaijan and Iranian Azerbaijan).

(5) Racialism and Fanaticism: Cancer at an International Scale

Two important points
need to be made. First (as noted repeatedly before) the majority
of Turks in Turkey as well as the inhabitants of the Republic of
Azerbaijan do not embrace Grey Wolf activism and seriously question
much of the racist ideology of pan-Turanianism. It is important
to again re-iterate how highly educated and cosmopolitan many
Turks are. Again, many Turks today favor dialogue with Greece
and Armenia to help amicably resolve the tragic historical disputes
between them.

The second point relates
to the first. Racialism is a cancer that threatens every race,
creed and religion today, and the
potential for that cancer resides in us all, regardless of our race,
nationality, religion or language. Groups advocating hate
are literally mushrooming across the Western World, the Near East
and Asia. They are all surprisingly similar in that they all wish
to narcissistically worship their “race” and/or religion while cultivating
a dogma of hatred against the members of the “other”. Below are
only a few shocking examples.

Russian neo-Nazis are an oxymoronic
organization. These gentlemen have conveniently “forgotten” Hitler’s brutal and barbaric
invasion of Russia on
June
22, 1941, a war which cost the lives of over 20 million Russian men,
women and children. Hitler’s Nazi ideology ranked Slavic peoples such
as the Russians among the inferior Untermenschen (Subhumans) “slave races”.
Millions of Russian prisoners were
murdered in
cold blood by the Nazis – in flagrant violation of the Geneva Convention
(see “Aryan” German officers executing a Russian soldier):

Soviet

The
Russian Nazi salute is as absurd and self-deprecating
as the Azerbaijani (from the Republic or within Iran)
who engages in the Grey Wolf salute (Part II, item 6).

Racialist
philosophers glorify the literature of narcissistic race-worship,
perpetuate hatred and division, and as such represent the most repugnant
element of the human psyche. Their ideologies only lead to
bitterness and confrontation, and like all fascist movements, ultimately
end up defeating themselves.

History
has already seen the likes of Houston Stewart Chamberlain
(1855-1927), one of the founders of West European and Nordic racism
(and ultimately Nazism) (see photo at left) or Joseph Arthur
Comte de Gobineau (1816–1882), who in addition to his Chamberlain-style Nordicism, also
helped originate Persian Aryan chauvinism (see photo at right).

ChamberlainGobineau

Gobineau’s
“Aryanism” has led a number of Iranians to the simplistic and erroneous
view that Arabs are to blame for all of Iran’s social, cultural and political ills. These same individuals also
believe in the cultural superiority of their “Aryan” heritage (Persian
and Kurdish) over those of the “non-Aryans” of Western
Asia and the Near East.

There
was even a pro-Nazi “Kaboud” movement in Iran (late 1930s-early 1940s); below photo depicts one of their
secret fascist gatherings in the early 1940s. Today that Aryanist
movement has resurfaced as the virtually unknown SUMKA (see
Web References, see also “Neo Nazi in Iran” in Web references). One of their mottos is: “Iran Bartar az Ham-e” whose approximate translation is: Iran superior to
All. Fortunately, few Iranians
have even heard of SUMKA and would reject much of their nonsense.
But imagine if certain western lobbies, harboring a geopolitical/economic
agenda, decided to promote and fund this tiny organization by hosting
multitudes of websites, hiring “professors”, setting up radio/television
programs, and propelling “human rights” and political advocacy platforms?

Pers
Nazi

Greece has long been known
for her traditions of democracy – a term of Greek origin
(Demos = people & Kratus = government). She too
is now home to a very small xenophobic neo-Nazi style movement that
identifies with west European racist organizations. This is the
"Chryssi Avgi" (Golden
Dawn)movement which is vehemently racist, shown demonstrating below
in central Athens (April 30, 2002):

GreekNazi

For the first time in its history, Greece has seen the appearance
of an organization that contradicts much of what the
ancient Greeks have given to the world. There are neo-Nazi
organizations in other non-Nordic European countries such
as Italy (see the Furozo Nuevo [The New Force/Power] in Rome’s Risorgomento Square, December 2000 – below left) and Spain (see Spanish neo Fascists in Madrid saluting a portrait
of Franco – below right)

ItalianNaziSpanishNazi

By aping the Neanderthal
behavior of Nordicists, Spanish, Italian, and Greek neo-Nazis are
rejecting their proud Mediterranean heritage – conveniently forgetting
the crucial role that the Mediterranean has played in the foundations
of western civilization. Racism obliges its adherents to engage
in moronic, barbaric and self-deprecating behavior.

In Japan there is a
fringe Pan-Turanian organization known as the National
Socialist Japanese Workers and Welfare Party
(NSJWWP) founded in 1982 (see flag below). They essentially combine
Nazism and Pan-Turanian ideology.

JapNazi

Although theNSJWWP is a very small organization, there
are a number of Japanese who deny any responsibility for war crimes
committed in China
during the 1930s and 1940s. In turn, many of these individuals
view China as a nation that entertains historical grievances to extract political
gains from Japan.

Mr. Chehreganli’s SANAM
organization (see their Grey Wolf rally at Babak castle in Iran
below – note Chehreganli’s photo held aloft) is a fringe Nazi-style
racist movement (note again their Grey Wolf salute in photo below). SANAM denies this of course in its website, stating that they wish
for the “peaceful” attainment of their aims. Mr. Chehreganli has
yet to explain how he proposes to achieve Iran’s
dismemberment by “peaceful means”? These fascists are the proverbial
(Grey) wolves in sheep’s clothing: how ironic that
they accuse their critics of fascism!

GWSANAM

Western
patronage and support is seeking to portray dangerous and racist
movements such as Chehreganli’s SANAM and the Grey
Wolves as legitimate “human rights” and “national
awakening” organizations. As will be noted in Part VI, item
2b, the same type of organizations were mobilized to dismember former
Yugoslavia.